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Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites or sometimes by emails. They provide useful information to companies, which helps in all sorts of ways. For you, it means you can use the site more efficiently and save time by not having to re-enter your details each time you visit. They also make sure you receive the most relevant information from Irish Life. For us, cookies help us to analyse how our customers interact with our sites so we can make improvements.

Cookies on our website do not contain personally identifiable information about you.

Our cookie types are described below according to the International Chamber of Commerce guide for Cookie Categories:

Strictly necessary

Performance

Functionality

Targeting

Cookie Type

Purpose

Used for

Not used for

Strictly Necessary

Used for essential features like secure areas, shopping baskets and so on.

Identifying you as logged onto your Irishlife.ie account.

Remember information you've entered on forms as you navigate through applications on the website.

Gather information about you

Remember your preferences or credentials beyond your current visit.

Performance

Collect information about how you use the website, which pages you visit and if you have errors. These cookies don't collect information that could identify you - all information gathered is anonymous and used to help us improve how our website works.

Provide statistic on website usage.

See how effective our advertisements are.

Provide feedback to our partners that one of their visitors visited our website.

Test different designs of our website.

Gather information for purposes of advertising.

Target Irish Life adverts to you on any other website

Functionality

Cookies that belong to services used on our website to improve your visit.

Remeber settings such as text size, preferences and colours.

Remember if we already asked you to complete a survey.

Provide live chat capability.

Link to social networks like Facebook to allow you to follow Irish Life or share our content.

Show when you're logged into the website.

Target you with Irish Life advertisements on other websites.

Targeting

Linked to services provided by 3rd parties. The 3rd party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.

Provide advertising agencies with information on your visit so that they can present you with Irish Life advertisements that you may be interested in.

The following tables outline full details of all the cookies in use on the website.